hey everybody welcome back to podcasting my name's bandru and i am back with another microphone test
video for you guys today I'm testing out this guy this is the audio technica at2020 as first
requested by our viewer super nubs dieter so before we go any further I need to point out
this is a true condenser microphone so it does require a full 48 volts of phantom power to work
and it is an XLR microphone and I am setting it up using the behringer um tube to provide the
power and the interface to the computer this will not work with an XLR to USB cable an XLR
to 3.5 millimeter cable and it won't work with a USB soundcard it needs full phantom power to
work and as per usual if you are interested in this microphone I'll throw a link in the video
description down below and it will set you back about a hundred bucks on Amazon so let's go ahead
and talk about what you get in the box obviously you're going to get the microphone you also get a
microphone mount it also comes with a 5/8 to 3/8 inch microphone stand adapter that allows you to
hook up this mic mount to a stand like this it also comes with a really nice padded pouch to
store the microphone and lastly it comes with some documentation also I want to note it does
not come with a microphone cable so you will need to purchase that separately if you plan
on getting this microphone the build quality on this thing feels pretty great it's an all-metal
body and it feels substantial and then on top of that the microphone mount is actually metal
as well and it feels like it's built to last and like it's not going to fail I also like that it's
clearly labeled that this is the back so you're not going to end up speaking into the wrong side
of the microphone so the frequency response of this guy is 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz which is
everything that you could want out of a microphone that means it picks up pretty much every single
audible frequency that the human ear can hear it also matches that it is a cardioid polar pattern
so it should only pick me up when I'm speaking into the front now I'm speaking into the back
of the microphone it should not pick up much if any audio from there if I speak into the top of
it it should not pick up much audio there and if you speak into the bottom it should not pick up
the audio there and also the impotence of this microphone is 100 ohms and here is a
list of the other specifications which I'll just go ahead and leave up while I finish
this sentence okay right now I am one foot away from the microphone now I'm about two feet away
from the microphone now I'm about four or five feet away from the microphone now I am speaking
into the microphone as I bang on my keyboard directly behind it to see how much of my voice
it picks up versus how much of the keyboard in the background it picks up now for the music test
never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you
overall I think is a pretty great sounding microphone and the build quality is also really
impressive so of course I'm going to recommend this microphone and a little bit farther in the
future we'll go ahead and compare this microphone which is at2020 against the 80/20 35 which is the
higher-end version of this microphone but for right now I do recommend this microphone I don't
think this is going to be a microphone that you're going to want if you're just doing voiceovers on
YouTube and you're not professional this is going to be for people who are a little bit
more serious about getting high quality audio the kind of people who will be investing in an
actual USB audio interface as well as a pop filter because that will really help you get
the best out of this microphone alright guys well I guess that will do it as per usual I'll throw a
link in the video description down below to this microphone and if you have any more questions go
ahead and leave them in the comments down below and I'll try to answer them as soon as I can if
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